Bill Sykes' Newsletter
from America.
(October 2002)
An ex-Brit gives his views-(without fear
or favor)---of the American Scene
President Bush’s words anger the Democrats.
 Senator
Majority leader Tom Daschle had harsh words to say today
the 25th of September 2002 in response to a speech that
President Bush made two nights ago on Monday the 23rd of
September 2002 during a political trip to Trenton New Jersey.
Bush when speaking about “Homeland Security”
apparently accused the Democrats of being more interested
in politics than the security of the American people.
This really put the cat amongst the pigeons and generated
an angry response from Senator Daschle who accused the President
and the Republican party of using the Iraq situation for
political purposes and demanded that the president apologize
to the American people.
The Democrats accused the Republicans of using the threats
of war with Iraq in an attempt to divert election year attention
from a faltering economy and other domestic issues.
The White House spokes person Ari Fleischer said that no
apology will be forthcoming and that Senator Daschle had
misstated the intent of the Presidents speech.
Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Dossier.
 The
Russian Foreign Secretary Igor Ivanof stated that only experts
can determine the extent of Iraq’s weapons of war
and not politicians. He also stated that the 58 page dossier
that Tony Blair presented as evidence to the British Parliament
of the Iraqi weapons status, and Saddam Hussein’s
intent to use such weapons, was pure speculation and not
proof.
Criticism has also been aimed by certain political bodies
at the content of President Bush’s speech to the United
Nations, which was supposed to outline proof of Iraq’s
weapons status.
It was suggested that the speech was strong on rhetoric
and weak on substance.
Comment:
Certain intelligence reports have stated that should the
United States go to war with Iraq they will face a better
trained Iraqi army than they faced in Gulf War One, and
that this time the war will not be fought in the desert
with superior American long range tanks, but would be a
war fought with hand to hand fighting in the suburbs of
Baghdad, which would result in significant US casualties.
We must remember our disastrous incursion into Mogadishu,
Somalia, where American soldiers using helicopter support,
and were obviously inexperienced in suburban house to house
fighting, fought valiantly but unsuccessfully against a
rag tag army of the resident warlord with the loss of many
American lives.
Even with American softening up of the Iraqi regime by
carpet bombing of several Iraqi cities, prior to the entry
of American ground troops, and the inevitable killing of
thousands of Iraqi civilians, (innocent or otherwise), the
world at large will deplore the carnage.
 May
I insert this facetious, but not inappropriate, suggestion
that a possible solution to the Iraq situation, which incidentally
would save thousands of American and Iraqi lives, would
be to send Saddam Hussein and George Bush out into the desert
to fight a duel at twenty paces, where the last man standing
takes all.
Of course that wouldn’t work to the benefit of the
so called free world as I’m led to believe that Saddam
Hussein is the better marksman.
Perhaps Tony Blair could be in attendance and make sure
that a fair and dignified result occurred.
Read into that whatever you will. !!!
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